PRE RELEASE JORDANS

They Pre release some.

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ha i thought it was in the middle of a jordan thread and didn't even try to look, nice work B.

Mik - in theory with the new forum, it'll be easier to link to specific posts inside threads. thats the theory anyway.

Jack - no worries. for what its worth, i'd rather not get a shoe, than pay a premium to get early what might not be legit product. if i buy a nike, i want to be able to take it to nike if there's a fault and ask them to fix it. if they gave it back to me unfixed, because its a prerelease/notauthorised/earlyrelease/whatever, then i'm wasting my money in the first place. you will not die if you do not get a specific shoe when its released. it will fill like it sure, but if you goto sleep, you'll wake up again, still alive, just without a pair of shoes that some people consider hyped/heat. jsut wait for them to appear in your local shops, and then buy them from there.


there's a lot of people on the net who've had good relations with air randy and co, but there's also heaps of people who've got something negative to say about randy and co. i dont need the trouble/stress in my life that might come if i purchased one of their pairs.

shooster - at the time K wrote it, it was then picked up by quite a few international type sites. its a bloody good read imho.

what i generally do these days to find stuff on here is to hit google with

site:sneakerfreaker.com <authorname> <keywords>

include the colon, but drop the brackets. often i dont know the author name exactly (unless its one of my threads) but i can remember enough of who posted the info to help me find the thread. eg - for that grey market i used

site:sneakerfreaker.com kuyakoy grey jordans randy

that generates two hits. the first one is the one we wanted.

i think the biggest cause of successful searching SF is to use that site: term. it locks the results to only come from that site.

re: the innersoles?

probably just random imho. of all the shoes i have at home, i cant determine beforehand if a inner is removeable at a glance. even in the same shoes there can be differences. any shoe that is Nike+ enabled will have a removable inner.

also a removable inner means that people can buy the sneaker and put their orthopedics in. generally i think removable inners are a better thing.


RE: levis
what did you mean by Levi making outlet jeans? you mean levi "produce" multiple (different) brands ? again kinda makes some sense. they have their premium range (levis) and then their cheaper variants. nike effectively did the same with SB and 6.0.

Nike SB is the premium, generally has better tech, better cushioning, higher price.

Nike 6.0 is the cheaper variant, pretty similar to SB, but little bits of tech will be missing and there'll be lunar inners instead of zoom air, that kind of thing.

i remembered too that i've had inners that were removable and i glued them in cos it was bugging me. i also remember inners that weren't actually removable, but i only worked that out as they came out of the shoe with heaps of glue marks. enough glue had failed that i thought the inner was supposed to come out, but in fact it was just bad glue.

i really doubt its outlet related too.

loling at myself i just realised....

shooster wrote:

Wonder if Nike does the same thing.

lets see.....

Premium -> Not Premium
Nike -> Converse / Hurley
Nike SB -> Nike 6.0
Nike Tier0/etc -> Nike GR
Nike Premiums -> Nike GR
Nike ACG -> Nike shield
AF25 -> AF1
Nike SB Dunk -> Nike6.0Dunk -> GR Dunk
Jordan "Flagship" -> Jordan Brand
Lebron Elites -> Lebron
Kobe Elites -> Kobe Flagship
Kobe Flagship -> that cheaper Kobe knockoff that nike made for the asian market
Nike Elite socks -> Nike socks
Nike H2go hoods -> Nike hoods


its arguable that in the past, Jordan Brand -> Nike Basketball, but the last few years that'd be very contentious. hyperdunk and some of the others are arguably possibly better than some of the JB stuff.


i'm sure there's better/more examples but that's what came to mind.

Legitimacy was never the main subject(one would hope), it was more how the pre whatever's are possible with these guys. I always believe that RMK is more legitimate than a shoex store and whether or not they play the same game as air randy, no one will know.

Thanks brendan and mik... I always thought that was just an outlet thing- to distinguish... Any given shoe from the outlets I've bought had always had removable inners(no glue at all) and all the normal store nikes I have, you absolutely cannot remove the inners from them. It was even more prevalent with the samples that roamed around. And I used Levis as an example because I know for a fact they manufacture for main store and consignment purchases(myer, DJ, who ever else stocks the brand or special makes i.e. LVC) and they have an Direct Outlet manufacturing set up as well)

And I would say legitamcy IS the main main subject, as said  RMKSTORE and SOLEAWESOME)  is not pre release, they are pre order.
As always there people saying they have their pre releases already, to me that is a dodgey pair (well rtalking about bred 4's)

the only shoes I own with the insoles stuck down are gazelles, campuses, suedes, air force 1s and zx7000s

and yeah rmkstore, kix-files and the like are pre-orders and they don't ship out until release